The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

Working at the Justice Department used to be a prestigious gig in the legal profession. Now, its filings read like Trump ...

On April 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a pair of cases that will determine whether the Trump administration can remove over 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian beneficiaries of a federal ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

In November 2024, shortly after President Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, an ambitious Florida state appeals court judge reached out to the office of Florida Republican Senator Rick ...

The technical questions in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court will decide sometime next year, sound mostly like gibberish to people who are not already intimately familiar with several ...

In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. His leaked memos reveal just ...

As of March 2025, there were roughly 1.3 million people legally living and working in the United States as beneficiaries of a government-run humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has historically been among the nation’s most conservative federal appeals courts. This is particularly true where abortion is concerned: Well before President ...

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...